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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great player + great attitude but doesn’t get to play in high school or club? Someone sounds like they are deluding themselves, OP. Maybe the coach is your ex and still bitter about the breakup? [/quote]

NP. Come on. This is almost absurdly idealistic. There are many terrible reasons this happens, including racism, bias against the kid for reasons totally out of their control, classicism, etc. I’ve seen coaches blackball a kid because a sibling ten years earlier was not good. I’ve seen coaches refuse to play a kid for reasons that in the employment context would be overtly illegal.

I have one kid who is a current college athlete and another on the way. I have been through it. You people who believe in the myth of meritocracy in youth sports are ridiculous. [/quote]

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Thank you stating this and doing it in such a non-inflammatory way. We know a D1 recruit who never got playing time on a team and no one ever knew why.[/quote]

Happened to my son.  He got so much great feedback from college coaches and international coaches and then the dipsh*t club coaches played the kids whose dads would hang out at the field every practices and send him emails and the ones that were on the board and donated.

It's actually very common in my son's sport for this to happen.  But, only 1 out of the 6 kids headed to play college ball next year even played for the high school.  A lot had to do with this BS.[/quote]

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